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Tom Inglesby
@T_Inglesby
Director, Johns Hopkins SPH Center for Health Security, working to protect people from epidemics & disasters. Inf diseases, pub health, research, policy
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Yeah. *That* Johns Hopkins.
Read it.
And shudder. Then prep.
Tom is operating from the delusional presumption this bug can be contained.
Its characteristics and the fact it’s now seeded just about everywhere virtually ensures everyone will be exposed to it eventually.
That cat is out of the bag.
I think at most you can hope you’ll be one of the first exposed, or last. Because in between access to the full array of medical care will be limited to a few thousand people.
We have about 800,000 hospital beds in the US.
How many mechanical ventilators? How many beds in ICU? How many medical pros will continue to come into work, week after week before they too succumb?
Most folks in the middle of the curve will not even try to go to a hospital. They’ll live or die with their own immune system.